What are they up to?

Let’s do a quick check-in, and see what people are up to during the lull at the holiday season between the election, and the beginning of the next legislative session

Mark Begich -

Mark Begich is busy getting gold stars. The latest is for voting for the Feinstein Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, which takes steps to end allowing the indefinite detention of American’s in the United States.

Lisa Murkowski

Lisa Murkowski is “outraged” about the Benghazi incident. And “she has no patience for the constantly changing stories coming out of the White House and even less for the empty explanations from senior administration officials who she believes cannot or will not explain why things went wrong,” according to a press release. No mention about potential Secretary of State Susan Rice.

Sean Parnell

Don Young -

The Center for Biological Diversity has petitioned to list as endangered, the freshwater harbor seals living in Lake Iliamna, near the proposed site of the Pebble Mine. The seals are one of only 5 populations of fresh water seals in the world. This can mean only one thing. Press release from Don Young’s office telling the Iliamna freshwater seal to screw itself in 3, 2, 1…

Sullivan & Co. -

The mayor and his minions are busily fundraising for their chosen crony, Andy Clary. Just what we need – another white conservative Christian male in a position of power. Yay team.

French -

Everyone wants to be Hollis this week. His recount added votes to his win over Bob Bell in the Anchorage Senate race. And he learned the news while on vacation in Hawaii.

Palin -

She’s busy… um. Tweeting. Sort of. This week she delivered some pearls of wisdom and shared her unique and profound insights with us in 140 characters or less.

“Results whether good or bad come from the choices we make. Choose wisely.”

I was so moved by this revelatory wisdom, that I retweeted that one and sent it to John McCain.

Oh, and the FBI is looking into the Matanuska Maid Dairy debacle from when she was governor. Hmmmm…..

AKM, you are crackin’ me up! Did you perform apostrophe abuse on purpose? Will you now refudiate my gutteral instinct for finding such much abuse? Ow, that hurt. I don’t know Sarah does that without giving herself a big headache. Maybe one has to actually sport a brain to get a headache.

Gee, I wish Lisa Murkowski had displayed some of that outrage and impatience when the Bush administration was leading us into a war on false information, and stonewalled time after time when Bush declared everything classified, even if the law said it wasn’t. This late-blooming outrage is empty noise.

I can’t help but think that all the sound and fury from the right wing on this sad event is really just an effort to cover up the obscenely smug and pathetically obtuse effort by Mitt the dunce to insinuate his horrifically wrong judgement into actual government before he was ever not elected to anything.

09/11/2001 ? Nobody could have foreseen it. The biggest lie in history.

“The mayor and his minions are busily fundraising for their chosen crony, Andy Clary. Just what we need – another white conservative Christian male in a position of power. Yay team.”

Wow, I just tried something: re-read that statement, but change “white” to “[insert other color/ethnicity]” and change “Christian male” to “[insert other religion here] female”, and that would be considered discriminatory based on race, religion and sex. Good thing he’s white, Christian and male so its not.

If we truly want to break free from discrimination, we have to be willing to call each other out when we see it. It’s not right from either party.

Your comment is confusing here.
Are you saying AKM is making or verging on making a discriminatory remark?
If so- there is a distinct and complete difference between what is discrimination and the “Fallacious Flip” you have created here.

We won’t get past discrimination of all types if we are not honest that white privilege exists and that white male privilege has been problematic/disabling for a long time for way too many groups of people.

And please do remember, hating white privilege is not the same as hating white people.
The former is solid and good, the latter is stupid and sicko.

I wonder if whatzername actually understands her trite but true remark ?
Oh – prolly not. Oh- definitely not.
Is too much like my smallest sib , then a pre-reader , pounding away on Ma’s typewriter , playing teacher, years and years ago and accidently making/typing a couple words .
you string stuff together long enough, often enough, you can unintentionally get something sensible out of the pile…

“[Discrimination is] not right from either party/” Hmmmmm……Interesting sentence. First, is discrimination always wrong in every time, place and application? When we hired a caregiver for my elderly mom, was it wrong to prefer a female? When the Anchorage Baptist Temple hires an assistant pastor, is it wrong for them to prefer an evangelical Christian? If you are looking to appoint an interim assemblyperson to represent a culturally diverse community and to replace a duly elected moderate female Democrat, is there value in seeking diversity?

Interesting questions, but I’ll confine myself here to the observation that the only time the party in power seems to be concerned with “discrimination” is when they hold all the chairs and they want to keep holding them.

Then, how about the statement that discrimination is an evil from “either party”? Which party is that? Is it wrong if a black person points out that all the bosses are white? Is it wrong for a woman to point out that all the high-paid promotions go to men? Either assertion implies the speaker is “discriminating” against the white bosses or high-paid males.

This debate was beaten to smithereens during the creation of affirmative action programs. Racial, religious and sexual discrimination has created a society where privileged classes have built enormous walls of advantage. To suddenly say “no more discrimination” just leaves those walls in place.

You’ll forgive me if I don’t sympathize much with a claim that white conservative men are being discriminated against.